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MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees 206

Posted by timothy from the well-of-their-own-employees dept.
tgtanman writes "CNN reports that MySpace has announced that it has laid off 500 employees, 47% of its total staff. From the article: 'MySpace's management kept most of the site's developers but gutted nearly every other job role, according to a staffer who survived the cuts ... "Today's tough but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability," CEO Mike Jones said in a written statement. "These changes were purely driven by issues related to our legacy business, and in no way reflect the performance of the new product."'"

Comment Re:have we see the death of RPN? (Score 1) 313

by yo303 (#33891564) Attached to: Casio Unveils New Color Screen Graphing Calculator

Let me guess... you had a TI, and you never figured out how to use HPs?

RPN is just faster. Fewer keystrokes, and you work the way you think in your head, not "kindergarten" style brackets.

The "unnecessary work" you talk about is you learning RPN. This has nothing to do with "making life easier on a computer."
Displays

Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? 1140

Posted by CmdrTaco from the for-you-uriah dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Switching from 1600x1200 to wide 1680x1050 to HD 1600x900, we are losing more and more vertical space, thus it is becoming less and less simple to read a full A4 page or a web page or a function call. What's the solution for retaining the screen height we need to be productive?"
Government

New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy 350

Posted by Soulskill from the i-guess-campaign-funding-is-ramping-up-for-the-elections dept.
GovTechGuy writes "Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee unveiled new legislation to combat online piracy on Monday that gives the Department of Justice more power to shut down websites trafficking in pirated movies, films or counterfeit goods. The new bill would give the government the authority to shut down the sites with a court order; the site owner would have to petition the court to have it lifted. The judge would have final say over whether a site should be shut down or not. Business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce hailed the legislation as a huge step forward."
Robotics

Robots Taught to Deceive 239

Posted by CmdrTaco from the of-this-will-be-fine dept.
An anonymous reader found a story that starts "'We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered,' said Ronald Arkin, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing."

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